... talk, it swears.’ Wrong, Bob: money doesn't even to need to raise its voice. It just sends a memo. How the chips fall Lobster magazine emerged from a subsection of the left – what we might call the paranoid left – which was looking at the American and British secret states in the wake of JFK, Vietnam, Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, the Wilson plots and changes in policing and the rise of the 'strong state'. Yet, looking back at the last 40 years or so, it is quite clear that the most important event in this country since the 1960s had nothing to do with any of that: it was the capture of a ...

... but sneaky Russian ones. This claim is absurd, as anyone can easily demonstrate whether with Russian or other binoculars. The optics are just not capable of achieving this. There are many reproductions of pages from the address book with Weberman seeing things that are just not there. To take one example, Frank Fiorini Sturgis, one of the Watergate burglars and a familiar face to the JFK critical community, features prominently. Weberman has this: 'The name FIORINI appeared twice in Oswald's address book disguised as two words. One was "orinis" the other was "Russ for Forin". As you can see letters "i-n" were written in a different ink.’ Pretty conclusive proof ...

... Vincent Bugliosi in his enormous book on Oswald's lone guilt, Reclaiming History. 21 <http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee- report/part-1c.html> See page 118. John Kaylock claimed to have met Oswald in Punta Gorda, Florida, shortly before the assassination.2 2 A week after the assassination, CIA hand and future Watergate burglar Frank (Fiorini) Sturgis alleged that he had met Oswald in Florida in the days prior to the assassination itself, a claim that is surely a flashing red warning light indicating something highly suspicious being spun. And then there was Chicago. A JFK motorcade there had been called off after the discovery of an apparent assassination plot there ...

... lobster68/ lob68-view-from-the-bridge.pdf>. 52 <http://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/labour-re- writes-the-past-their-economic-man agement/> Following trails Roger Stone is a former Republican Party pol who, last year, published a book arguing the LBJ's-people-killed-JFK case.53 In the Daily Mail recently there was a puff piece for his new book on Nixon, Watergate et al, Nixon's Secrets.54 In that, this sentence about Gerry Hemming appears, complete with the brackets: (For the conspiracy-minded, 'Nixon's Secrets' also notes that Hemming had been JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's case officer at a naval air station in Japan, a point of origin for top-secret U-2 spy plane flights.) This seemed ...

... resources that comprised it were still subordinate elements in American society. Today it not only dominates both parties, but it is also financing threats to both these parties from even further to the right. That change has been achieved partly by money, but partly also with the assistance of deep events: events, such as the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, the 1980 October Surprise, Iran-Contra and 9/11, which repeatedly have involved lawbreaking and/or violence, have been mysterious to begin with, and whose mystery has been compounded by systematic falsification in media and internal government records.’ (pp. 102/3) 3 Scott looks at the series of linked deep events in American ...

... that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over...' Remember, the US was coming out of Vietnam, and the protests of the Sixties, and Nixon and Watergate. It was headed into the Tehran Embassy crisis, a revolution the trillions of dollars of US intelligence never saw coming, and the fall of our buddy in democracy, the Shah. Jimmy Carter took the blame for that, and America launched itself into twenty years of living in a fairy tale world narrated by Ronald Reagan, followed ...

... that sometimes governments and organisations do conspire.’ 2 Indeed: but how often is 'sometimes'? Unless you have read parapolitics – and I think it a fair assumption that the project's academic members will have read little or none – your perception of the extent of conspiracies by governments and organisations will be a gross underestimate. There is a piece on Watergate on the site,3 for example, which makes the banal point that conspiracy and cock-up often go together but discusses only the more obvious conspiracies within the Nixon White House. The authors appear to know little about Watergate's place in and links to the American national security state revelations in the 1960s and 70s. However this 1 <http ...

... White House Call Girl The Real Watergate Story Phil Stanford Washington State: Feral Press, 2013, $17.95, p/b Feralhouse.com O ne of the unanswered questions in the received versions of the Watergate affair was: why did the White House 'plumbers' want to bug the phones at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the Watergate complex? The DNC was a bureaucratic entity, not where the political action was. In his memoirs, Richard Nixon recalled his reaction to learning of the burglary:'...Anyone who knew anything about politics would know that a national committee headquarters was a useless place to go for inside information on a presidential campaign. The ...

... , in the presence of Roy Cohn, that Lyndon Johnson and Carlos Marcello were behind the JFK assassination. Roy Cohn nodded his head in agreement as both men laughed.’ This is new, mildly interesting but not significant. 'Stone lays out the connections between the Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco, the JFK assassination and the fall of Richard Nixon in Watergate. Stone outlines how Nixon manoeuvred furiously to obtain CIA records that would shed light on CIA-Mob connections to the JFK assassination as an "insurance policy" against investigation and impeachment in the Watergate scandal.’ This is a restatement of the thesis that Nixon's references to 'the Bay of Pigs' in communication with DCIA Richard Helms during the Watergate events was ...

... and he underplays the extent to which some of the participants in the drama, notably Pincher and D-notice Committee secretary Lohan, were motivated by hatred of the Labour government. Prime Minister Wilson knew this, which explains his (failed, disastrous) attempt to tackle them head-on. And it really wasn't, as he has it, 'the British Watergate': that epithet must surely go to the anti-Labour operations of the 1970s, about which he says nothing. The 80 pages on Pincher and the D-notice Affair feel like they're from another book. There is one striking error. In his section on the publication of The Quiet Canadian (1962) about William Stephenson, Moran describes the ...